Dear ProBoards Abuse dept - FOCUS ON ABUSE!

I came across something a few minutes ago that absolutely disgusted me. A ProBoards user reported a fraudulent advert, being advertised through the ProBoards service, and instead of saying thank you - ProBoards abuse dept sent a warning to the USER THAT REPORTED IT, due to a simple NONE ABUSIVE message on the top of the users forums;http://kasha-against-spam.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=kasscams

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Money mules, downloads and Portlane

As if money mules didn't have enough to worry about, what with the risk of not only upsetting those "using" them, but their getting prosecuted for fraud - they've now got to risk not answering a questionnaire correctly and being rejected (the thought of being rejected as a money mule, due to not answering correctly, is simply, hilarious).An MDL user pointed me to a few sites running the ever so

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Spambot Search Tool: v0.52

Release: v0.52Date: 22-02-2011* Fixed bug in functions.php* Modified IsValidEmail() function* Changed strpos() calls to substr_count()* Fixed bug in check_spammers_plain.php that resulted in invalid e-mails being allowed+ Added code to check for Bad Result error when querying blacklists* Contains modifications (e.g. re-written isURLOnline() and getURL() functions) and bug fixes with thanks to Dan

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Spambot Search Tool

Finally had time for a bit of work on this.Version: 0.51* Fixed bug in check_spammers_plain.php * Misc other fixes + Added drone.abuse.ch + Added zeustracker.abuse.ch + Added spam.abuse.ch + Added httpbl.abuse.chhttp://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=spambotsearchtool

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hpHOSTS - UPDATED February, 2011

hpHOSTS - UPDATED February, 2011The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 122,245 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 08/02/2011 21:00Last Verified: 08/02/2011 12:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

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Soviet Union, fakes, phishing and spam

If x = b, what do we need numbers for?Last time I checked, the Soviet Union didn't exist anymore, yet as we all know, the .su TLDs live on.Random musings are great aren't they? Well not in this case. I've yet to see a .su domain that's actually legit, and this one is no different. The domain in this case, is officialversion.su (also known as officialversion.ru), a domain we're all familiar

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